{"id":1273,"date":"2018-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/the-world-i-left-behind\/"},"modified":"2018-06-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T00:00:00","slug":"the-world-i-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/the-world-i-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"The World I Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I reached David\u2019s Point<\/p>\n<p>There was an epic change of scene,<\/p>\n<p>Trees rustled with a tune, water danced drunk,<\/p>\n<p>Light scintillated unblinkingly, time stilled echoingly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moments melted into hours<\/p>\n<p>And then I woke from the reverie,<\/p>\n<p>The world looked eerily different,<\/p>\n<p>I felt possessed,<\/p>\n<p>The door of eternity seemed to have opened a crack.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I melted into the scene,<\/p>\n<p>Slowly losing my earlier identity,<\/p>\n<p>There was no self but harmony with universe,<\/p>\n<p>No purpose but the word of God.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the world I left behind,<\/p>\n<p>It seemed unreal and lifeless,<\/p>\n<p>I wondered why I lived there,<\/p>\n<p>Then why so long?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, New York, June 30, 2018<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kaulscorner.com\">www.kaulscorner.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>maharaj.kaul@yahoo.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I reached David\u2019s Point There was an epic change of scene, Trees rustled with a tune, water danced drunk, Light scintillated unblinkingly, time stilled echoingly. &nbsp; Moments melted into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-poems"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}